Mumbai, Oct 12 (IANS) A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here has ordered attachment of five properties belonging to controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, an agency statement said on Friday. Situated in…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday put on hold the Uttarakhand High Court order imposing a blanket ban on the issuance of ‘fatwas’ by the religious bodies. The bench of Justice…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said it can’t pass order asking everyone in the country to become vegetarian. “Do you want everybody in this country to be vegetarian?” an SC…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Oct 12 (IANS) India was elected with the highest number of votes by the General Assembly to the influential Human Rights Council on Friday with a pledge to combat intolerance….
Hyderabad, Oct 12 (IANS) The Hyderabad High Court on Friday dismissed pleas challenging the dissolution of Telangana Assembly nine months ahead of the completion of its term. The petitioners had sought the court to declare…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Congress leader Kamal Nath’s plea for soft copies of the draft electoral rolls in text mode format for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections in…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed a city government circular that excluded non-Delhi patients from taking free treatment at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital here. A bench of Chief…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the Modi government of systematically derailing the RTI Act and asserted his partys commitment towards resisting governments further attempts to dilute the law….
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The government on Friday said it will set up a legal committee to look into the cases being revealed in the wake of #MeToo campaign, where women are narrating stories…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Former Vice President Hamid Ansari will release “The Sarkari Mussalman” by Lt. General Zameer Uddin Shah (retd) on Saturday at the India International Centre here. The book has been subject…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution of the death sentence of Sonam, convicted of killing seven members of her family, along with her friend Naveen, at a Rohtak…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Emphasizing that information is power, President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said that free flow of information is the essence of democracy and that people have the right to know…
New Delhi, Oct. Oct 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the West Bengal government’s decision to grant Rs 10,000 each to 28,000 community Durga Puja committees in the state but…
Chennai, Oct 12 (IANS) In a setback to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami, the Madras High Court on Friday ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the allegations of tender…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed social activist Swami Agnivesh’s plea for payment of minimum wages to workers in the unorganised sector across the country. These wages should be equivalent…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Women and Child Development Ministry (WCD) on Friday said that it will set up a legal committee in the wake of the #MeToo campaign, where multiple sexual harassment cases…
Islamabad, Oct 12 (IANS) Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday extended till November 17 the deadline given to the accountability court to wrap up corruption cases against the Sharif family members. The apex court’s deadline to…
Islamabad, Oct 12 (IANS) Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi has sacked a senior judge of the Islamabad High Court, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, for alleging interference by the country’s spy agency in the judicial proceedings, especially…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) After the Delhi High Court on Friday set aside its circular on preferential treatment to city residents at the GTB Hospital here, the Aam Aadmi Party government said it will…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday condoled the death of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who was on a fast for the last 111 days demanding a clean Ganga. “The true son…